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2 hrs ago | Common Dreams

The G8 Comes to the 'New Northern Ireland', a Place Where no Dissent Will Be Tolerated

In Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, the streets are full of fake shop-fronts, designed to give the impression that empty stores are still selling things.

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Related Topix: Fermanagh County, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, World News, US News

3 hrs ago | Common Dreams

Mass World Cup Protests Rock Brazil

I traveled to Brazil last September to investigate the preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.

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Related Topix: Sports, Olympics, US News

7 hrs ago | Common Dreams

The Terror Con

For defense contractors, the government officials who write them mega checks, and the hawks in the media who cheer them on, the name of the game is threat inflation.

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Related Topix: Consulting, Booz Allen Hamilton, Terrorism, US News

11 hrs ago | Common Dreams

Fracking Puts Squeeze on Drought-Striken Farmers

The fracking industry is putting the squeeze on water-strapped farmers in the central United States according to a new analysis released Monday by the Associated Press.

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Related Topix: Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought, Agriculture, Science, San Antonio, TX, US News

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Common Dreams

Australian Scientists Sound Warning on Climate Change: Fossil Fuels Must Stay in the Earth

A majority of Australia's remaining fossil fuels 'must be left in the ground and cannot be burned' if society is to have any hope of curbing the existential threat posed by climate change, Australian scientists declare in a chilling government report released today.

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Related Topix: US News

Daily Kos

So I wrote a diary about rape...

What I was really trying to do was educate men and women from the possibilities that leads us to rape, apparently that just did not happen considering the number of people who hated it.

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Related Topix: US News

Daily Kos

An abortion walks into a bar and says to the bartender ..

"How do you make abortion funny?" That was a key question mulled at a major conservative gathering Friday on how to make social conservatism appealing to young people, after an election where Republicans got trounced in the battle for millennial voters .

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Related Topix: US News, Wedding, US Politics, Mitt Romney, Gay/Lesbian

Daily Kos

Monday Murder Mystery: Tana French's Dublin

One day, while working with a trowel at an archeological dig, Tana French glanced over at the nearby woods and wondered, "what if three kids went into the woods and only one came out? What would it do to him growing up?" Within that sentence, which appears in a 2012 interview that Tana French gave to the The Guardian , is the secret of every one of ... (more)

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Related Topix: Kids, Family, US News

Common Dreams

The NSA's Spying Program: What's at Stake for the Climate Movement?

The revelation that the National Security Agency gathers information about our phone and Internet use has been frightening, if not exactly surprising.

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Related Topix: Dianne Feinstein, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East

MSNBC

Recommended: Ancient Chinese murals saved from tomb robbers

Four men blow into long horns at the entranceway into a 1,500-year-old tomb chamber, located on the south wall.

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Related Topix: Anthropology, Archaeology, Science, US News

MSNBC

B for busted: Students changed grades by tampering with professors' keyboards

After four years of altering grades using credentials gained with keylogger equipment installed on professors' keyboards, three Purdue University students were finally busted when one of those professors complained that one of his passwords mysteriously changed.

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Related Topix: Purdue University, US News

Common Dreams

"I Voted For Change": 22 Arrested as KXL Protests Target Obama

Over 20 anti-Keystone protesters were arrested Monday morning for blockading the doors to the Chicago State Department as part of newly launched call to action that declares "if you don't act, I will."

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Credo, US News

The Nation

The Making of a Global Security State

A member of the audience uses their phone to take a picture of President Barack Obama at a fundraiser.

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Related Topix: Prison, US News

Common Dreams

Get Out: Australia's Army Chief Is Evidently Not Cool With Sexual Assault

With Australia's military facing its own sexual scandal , some older and some newer involving "explicit emails and photos," Chief of Army Lieutenant General David Morrison made a video to make it clear where he stands on the issue.

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Related Topix: US News

Common Dreams

A Civil Liberty 'Victory': Controversial Voter ID Law Rejected

The Supreme Court has struck down a controversial Voter ID law in Arizona, an action the ACLU has declared as a "victory."

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Related Topix: ACLU, US News

Common Dreams

David Brooks, Tom Friedman, Bill Keller Wish Snowden Had Just Followed Orders

Edward Snowden's disclosures, the New York Times reported on Sunday, "have renewed a longstanding concern: that young Internet aficionados whose skills the agencies need for counterterrorism and cyberdefense sometimes bring an anti-authority spirit that does not fit the security bureaucracy."

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Related Topix: US News

Common Dreams

British Government Spied on G20 Delegates: NSA Scandal Goes Global

New revelations exposed Sunday show that British government hosts of the 2009 G20 summit spied on the internet and phone communications of foreign delegates and politicians and went so far as luring officials to fake internet cafes where their email and computer use was monitored.

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Related Topix: Computers, US News

Common Dreams

9 Ways the Right's Cradle to Grave "Randian State" Is An Assault on Millennials

Conservatives keep claiming liberals want a "cradle-to-grave nanny state." That rhetoric has distracted us from the real social re-engineering taking place all around us.

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Related Topix: Rand, CO, Ayn Rand, Toddlers, Family, US News

Irregular Times

Dangerous EarthGro Pottting Soil From Scotts

It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye.

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Common Dreams

Recruitment Abuses Emerge in Immigration Reform Debate

Archiel Buagas thought she was doing everything right. The young Filipina nurse secured a special work visa to come to the United States and arranged a job at a New York nursing home with the help of a recruiting agency.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Medicine, Nursing, US News